Posts by Jason Clery 108 publicly visible posts • joined 31 May 2007
The difference between MS and Apple is that MS don't pretend to be a "save the trees" "lets help the people, "power to the people, fight the man" company. Apple is corporate through and through, second only to Sony in proprietry.
MS knows its an evil empire and doesn't try PR differently.
Calm down dear, its only a machine. No need to get worked up about it.
As I said, stick mac-os on non-mac hardware, broadcast the fact, then count the seconds until the lawyers come and get yoy.
"MS still charges an enormous amount to apply its OS to any of these '£10 Hong Kong junkers'" and Apple doesnt change an enourmous amount for its OS and hardware?
From Apple
cheapest imac: £680
From ebuyer same processor PC £360. with double the HDD, double the RAM, 11 in 1 card reader and 1 year collect and return warranty (no taking it to the "genius" bar, of/when it blows up) and a better graphics card.
Add another £100 for a 17 screen, and £40 for a camera and wireless card.
£180 cheaper.
" As far as Apple is concerned, nobody in their right mind would associate Apple and cheap computing as a legacy statement, so that is a non-starter"
I appreciate that you want to be seen as "elite", and bully for you. Like I said MS brought computing to the masses, Apple didn't.
"Are you on drugs? MS has done zip to bring cheap computing to the masses. MS creates substandard software, then charges a butt-load for it. Try reading a book before making idiotic statements like that."
Unlike apple, you can stick MS on a £10 Hong Kong junker and it will pretty much work. You are not completely locked down to proprietry hardware. You can stick 3rd party components in the box, etc. Try stick mac-os on non apple hardware and prepare for the lawyers. They may do Intel now, buts appleIntel not your free choice of hardware supplier.
"So you are now just TOLERATING the wheel now? (ROTFLMAO -- ho f*ck!!!)"
where did this statement come from? You asked if I was on drugs. What part of "the wheel is probably a better control for an MP3 play." did that tiny little brain of yours miss?
It was said "The point is that you iKoolAid drinkers are now at the point where you are responding not to what you are reading on the screen, but to things that **you have imagined**"
and that holds true
David, under that logic, when your company email goes down and the staff don't feel like fixing it all they need to say is "Email is inherently unreliable", then go home for the weekend.
I expect internal email to work, I expect external email to attempt delivery.
Tiscali email does not attempt to deliver:
internally,
to my own domain with an email forward
to hotmail
to anywhere else in the world.
This "its spammers" is a lie.
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